Janet Sternburg . Photography

 

 


Janet Sternburg . Photography

janet@calarts.edu
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My work is about revealing an interpenetrating world.
To that end, I use no manipulation whatsoever.
I work with single-use and iPhone cameras because their limitations give me what I want,
images that are close to the way our minds work.
I want to encourage in myself and in others a kind of perception that leads to deeper reflection, which in turn leads to thinking about what matters personally and socially.

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Siren . Olot, Spain . 2011

 

 

Wall . Granada, Spain . 2011

 

Tepozlan hand . Tepozlan, Mexico . 2013

 

Radiant . Los Angeles . 2014

 

Bikini . New York City . 2015

 

Bikini - detail


Stream . San Miguel de Allende . 2001

 

Tutu . New York City . 2014

 

The Weird sisters . New York City . 2014

 

Tightrope . Barcelona, Spain . 2011

 

Splendor . San Miguel de Allende . 1999

 

Orchard . Madrid, Spain . 2015

 

The hand that lays upon . Los Angeles . 2012

 

Mortal . Barcelona, Spain . 2011

 

Archaïc . Los Angeles . 2015

 

Chandelier . Los Angeles . 2016

 

Encounter . Los Angeles . 2015

 

Mountain . Lofoten, Norway . 2002

 

Ventura . Sherman Oaks . 2014

 

Ventura - detail

 

Amphora . San Miguel de Allende . 1999

 

Cuesta . San Miguel de Allende . 2008

 

Still, Life . Madrid . 2015

 

Synapse . San Miguel de Allende . 2009

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New Works: from City of Shrines: Los Angeles

Pumping Iron . Los Angeles

 

Toys . Los Angeles

 

Need . Los Angeles

 

Ticket Booth . Los Angeles

 

We hang what we love . Los Angeles

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New images taken from March to now, the time of the pandemic. (Soon to be a book).

Almost all the Los Angeles Museums had closed, and The Getty Museum would close the next day.

 

For a while I walked through Los Angeles’ empty streets, seeing mostly what was desolate.

 

Then I started to see a poetry that I hadn’t always seen in more populated times.

 

And the light kept changing.

 

I became fascinated by two buildings close to where I live in Downtown Los Angeles. One was the abandoned L.A. Times, the other was CalTrans headquarters. Both have niches along their outside walls that hold faded photographs. I stood in front of these at various hours of the day, choosing a detail and letting what was behind me enter the frame.

 

 

Sometimes I drive to Point Fermin, the southernmost point of Los Angeles County.

 

Sometimes I drive to the north of the County, as here in Green Valley.

 

And I hope and despair, with both in my lens. August, 2020

 

 

 


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